Friday, February 22, 2013

Seaside Sorting

This activity will help teach
children what belongs on the beach. Teach the children about the dangers of
littering and how it can affect our environment. I recently looked through my
third grade journal, it consisted ENTIRLEY of stories about rocket powered
shoes and how I would one day save all the dolphins from fishermen’s nets and
other debris commonly found in the ocean (there were about 18 dolphin stories
for each story about my rocket powered shoes).
Here is a site about a dolphin who survived being trapped in a crab
line:

After
learning about the dangers of trash in the ocean have the children sort out
what belongs on the beach. You can give them a small “trash bag”( write trash
on a brown paper sack) and have them clean the beach of everything that does
not belong. Here we had a soda can, a net and several pieces from plastic
wrappers. For younger children have them sort fish from shapes or pom poms.